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Way to go, Ray! I admire your energy, seriousness and sincerity. Raj ********* ----- Original Message ----- From: Rayilyn Brown <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Saturday, February 05, 2005 2:25 PM Subject: Therapeutic cloning must not be held hostage to reproductive cloning > Dear Editor: > > Representative Stump's HB 2221 assures the defeat of therapeutic cloning by > tieing it to unpopular reproductive cloning, which is banned by most state, > federal, and legislation around the world. > > Therapeutic cloning or nuclear transfer involves an unfertilized egg, (a germ > cell) no sperm needed, and one's own DNA (somatic cells). This research is > designed to learn how cells, not people behave. Knowing the causes of diseases > is necessary to develop better treatments and cures for spinal cord injuries, > ALS (Lou Gehrig's disease), MS, diabetes, and Parkinson's. > > Most Nobel Laurettes think using one's own DNA would eliminate the rejection > problems that accompany organ transplants. We won't know what works until the > research is done on adult,(cells which given the right circumstances could > become a human being) embryonic (these cells come from the extra embryos > routinely discarded in vitro fertilization clinics which is all about asexual > reproduction), Nuclear Transfer, and synthetic stem cells recently produced at the > University of San Francisco, CA. > > Unlike Rep. Stump I don't find reproductive cloning either scary or surreal > as we already have clones (identical twins), it is unnecessary and should not > be used to stymie research that could help millions of living, suffering > people. > > If we leave this research to others around the world we will not only suffer > a brain drain, but will lose control over the process. President Bush's > Solomonic decision has yielded no stem cell lines - they are all contaminated, so > we are already behind South Korea. > > Rayilyn Brown > 18507 N. Windfall Drive > Surprise, AZ 85374 > 623-584-5869 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] > In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn